Environnement, Risques & Santé

Agenda

Launched in response to the information needs of the various actors on the environmental scene, Environnement, Risques & Santé is a cross-disciplinary journal covering all subjects that involve the environment and health.
Climatology, toxicology, epidemiology, biophysics, earth and water sciences, the study of radiation…: all the health issues relevant to those fields are studied in Environnement, Risques & Santé, from identifying health risks to examining legislation and standards.
Environnement, Risques & Santé intersperses original articles with summary reports on the state of international research and scientific debate, under the supervision of three completely independent Editorial Boards.
Thanks to its wealth of content and to the expertise of the Editorial Board members – all leading experts in their fields – Environnement, Risques & Santé sets out to be the scientific benchmark on environmental health.

Environnement Risques et Santé is the official magazine of the Society francophone Health and Environment (SFSE).

Objectives and scope of Environnement, Risques & Santé

Environnement, Risques & Santé is a peer-reviewed, high-impact, French-language bimonthly journal aimed at scientists, doctors, engineers and all practitioners interested in all aspects of the relationship between the environment and health: characterization of hazards, assessment of population exposure, assessment of health risks, prevention and management actions.

The journal covers all aspects of environmental health, defined as those aspects of human health, including quality of life, determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, psychosocial and aesthetic factors in our environment. It also covers policies for the prevention and management of these risks using a “One Health” approach. The topics covered are very broad: indoor and outdoor air quality, water quality, soil quality, chemical risks, biological risks, physical risks, emerging risks, climate change, urban planning and health, food and health, biodiversity and health, exposome study, methodological aspects, etc.

Environnement, Risques & Santé is the leading French-language scientific journal in environmental health.

Environnement, Risques & Santé is the official journal of the French-speaking Society for Environmental Health (SFSE, www.sfse.org). Each year, a themed issue is dedicated to the SFSE congress and the work of the SFSE, particularly from its working sections, is published in the journal.

Editorial policy

Here you will find all JLE policies regarding publication in our journals. JLE journals follow the recommendations of the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors). These guidelines are the reference for best practices and ethical standards for the conduct and presentation of research and other information published in medical journals.

→ Version française de notre politique éditoriale

Instructions to authors

Short-list

The adherence to all the guidelines provided in this document is required for submitting an article to the journal.
However, here are the most common deficiencies observed in manuscripts, which result in an immediate return of the article to the authors, without review.

Identification of authors: All authors of the article must be identified by their full names, and their affiliations must be clearly stated. The corresponding author must be explicitly identified, along with the email address. This email address must be a permanent one: any manuscript with an inactive address will be permanently rejected.
Abstract and key words: Except for sections that are exempt, every manuscript must include an abstract and keywords (see below in this document for the precise definition).
Figures and tables: Any figure or table provided with the manuscript must be numbered and captioned (at minimum by a title), and must be explicitly referred to in the body of the text. Simply inserting a table or figure into the manuscript is not sufficient.
Bibliographic references: The format of the bibliographic references must strictly follow the instructions provided in this document. Incomplete references—such as listing only one author, omitting the year, volume, etc.—will result in the immediate return of the article for completion. All references must be cited in the text, and cited in natural integer order.

Audience

Occupational physicians, veterinary laboratories, researchers, students, engineers in companies, environmental managers in town halls and regional authorities, environmental associations.

Impact factor

2023 : 0.4 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports

Referrals

Embase, Biobase, Google Scholar, Scopus, ESCI

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

France Wallet, Medical expert, Group Health, Safety and Prevention Department - Risk Prevention Division, EDF (Electricité de France), Paris, France

The full list of the journal's editorial board is available online: https://www.jle.com/en/revues/ers/comite

Editorial board role and responsibility of the publisher

The Environnement, Risques & Santé journal is the direct property of SAS JLE.

The Environnement, Risques & Santé journal is published by SAS JLE as a delegated publisher.

The Editor-in-Chief is appointed by the editorial board.

To find out more about the role of the editor, the relationship between the editor and the editorial team, and editorial freedom: see the following link: https://www.jle.com/fr/politique-editoriale

Introduction

The following instructions follow the recommendations of the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors): https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/translations/french2025.pdf

These recommendations are the benchmark for best practice and ethical standards in the conduct and presentation of research and other information published in medical journals. The aim is to help authors, editors and others involved in peer review and biomedical publication to produce and disseminate accurate, clear, reproducible and unbiased articles.

The following instructions are in English. Pour la version française de ces instructions aux auteurs, veuillez consulter le lien suivant : https://www.jle.com/fr/revues/ers/espace_auteur

Submission address

Manuscripts should be sent to: marine.riviere@jle.com

No submission or publication fees (except in the case of Open Access, see below) are charged to authors or their institutions. Figures are redrawn, in colour, and retyped to adapt them to the journal's graphic standards.

Peer review

The journal uses a double-blind peer review process. Each article is initially evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors to ensure that the content is appropriate for the journal. If the article is found to be appropriate, it is anonymised and sent to at least two independent expert reviewers to assess its scientific quality. The editor-in-chief makes the final decision as whether to accept or reject the article. For more information on the evaluation of articles: https://www.jle.com/en/peer-review-policy

Ethical rules

Environnement, Risques & Santéis an independent peer-reviewed journal and its distribution is linked to subscriptions. The journal is a member of the Syndicat de la presse et de l'édition des professions de santé (SPEPS).

The publisher SAS JLE joined to the charter for continuing medical education through writing of the National Union of the Medical Press and Health Professions (SNPM) and follows its rules (charter available on request).

When preparing their manuscript, authors undertake to have not received any payment or benefit in kind from an industrialist and that no industrialist has requested any corrections to their text. Otherwise, a contract must be drawn up between the sponsor and the publisher (SAS JLE) to decide on the form of the publication: supplement, detachable insert or sponsored article, in accordance with the rules laid down by the journal's editorial board and the learned societies that are partners of the journal. Sponsored publications will in any case be clearly indicated as such.

Protection of participants in research studies

Each research article submitted should include a statement that the study has obtained ethical approval (or a statement that it was not required and why), including the name of the ethics committee(s) or institutional review board(s).

Authors must ensure that the conduct and publication of research involving human data is in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki as revised in 2013 (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects).

All authors must have approval to conduct research from an independent local, regional or national human protection committee (e.g. ethics committees, institutional review board). If there is any doubt as to whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, the authors should explain the rationale for their approach and demonstrate that the local, regional or national review board has explicitly approved the questionable aspects of the study. Approval by a responsible review board does not preclude the writers from having their own judgement as to whether the conduct of the research was appropriate.

In the case of animal experiments, the authors should indicate whether national and institutional guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.

Patient consent and confidentiality

Any manuscript containing personal data of patients must comply with the AVR and ensure anonymisation, consent and confidentiality of the patient. Any manuscript that does not comply with the requirements set out in this policy may be refused.

For more details about the ethical rules followed by the journal, please see: https://www.jle.com/en/ethical-rules

Links of interest

Authors are requested to carefully consider the editorial and presentation requirements of the articles. Particular importance is given to the links of interest statement, which is the responsibility of the authors.

All the authors' interests related to the article, even if there is none, must be declared on the cover page of the manuscript.

Links of interest will also be the subject of a statement to be completed and signed at the time of proofreading. They will be listed at the end of the article after receipt of this statement.

If there is no reply from the authors, the article will be noted: Links of interest: [First name and surname of the author] has not declared any links of interest in relation to the article.

https://www.jle.com/en/ethical-rules

Artificial intelligence

When submitting or sending the article, authors must indicate whether they have used artificial intelligence-assisted technologies (such as Large Language Models [LLM], chatbots or image generators) in the production of the submitted work.

Authors who use such technologies must describe, both in the cover letter and in the work submitted in the appropriate section, if applicable, how they used them. For example, if artificial intelligence was used for writing assistance, describe it in the acknowledgements section. If artificial intelligence was used for data collection, analysis or figure creation, authors should describe this use in the methods. Authors are responsible for any submitted material that includes the use of artificial intelligence-assisted technologies.

Definition of the role of authors and contributors

Authorship of a biomedical work brings recognition and has important academic, social and financial implications. Authorship also implies responsibility and accountability for published research. The aim is to ensure that any contributor who has made a substantial intellectual contribution to a manuscript is recognised as an author, and that any contributor listed as an author undertakes that they are responsible for what is published.

For more details about the journal's editorial policy, please see: https://www.jle.com/en/editorial-policy

Different sections

Check list

Here is a list of criteria that articles must meet.
Does the abstract provide a complete and accurate description of the content of the article?
Are the objectives of the study clearly stated and logical?
Is the justification for conducting the study clear?
Are the methods described in sufficient detail for the experiment to be reproduced?
Does the content of the article comply with the reporting guidelines for the type of article/study?
Is the study design sound and appropriate for the stated objective?
Are the conclusions supported by the data?
Is the discussion section critical and comprehensive?
Are the number and recency of references appropriate?
Are statements appropriately supported by citations?

Guidelines

Several international guidelines are available to help with writing articles:

https://www.prisma-statement.org/

Clinical trials guidelines:

https://www.consort-spirit.org/

Animal studies guidelines:

https://nc3rs.org.uk/arrive-guidelines

Editorials should take stock of a topical issue and put into perspective the review article(s) devoted to it. Each editorial should be no longer than 3 typewritten pages and contain no more than 10 bibliographical references.
Syntheses are intended to provide an update on current knowledge, highlight recent advances and draw attention to unresolved issues. They should not exceed 35,000 characters including spaces, and may include illustrations, tables or figures, with captions and notes in French and English. They should be accompanied by: 1) the title in English, a summary in French and English of 300 words maximum, informative and indicating the aim of the work, the main results, quantified wherever possible, and the conclusions; 2) 3 to 5 key words in French and English, taken from the MESH thesaurus (available at: http://mesh.inserm.fr/mesh/search/index.jsp. Key words not included in this thesaurus should be clearly indicated; 3) bibliographical references (60 maximum), which should not claim to be exhaustive, but rather to be selective.
Original articles and technical notes are intended to present a scientific report on original methods, experimental approaches or protocols for solving problems in human pathology. Writing guidelines are identical to those for syntheses. Articles or notes should not exceed 25,000 characters including spaces, and may include illustrations, tables or figures, with captions and notes in French and English. Manuscripts should be accompanied by: 1) the title in English, an informative abstract in French and English of no more than 300 words, indicating the aim of the work, the main results, quantified wherever possible, and the conclusions; 2) 3 to 5 key words in French and English, taken from the MESH thesaurus (available at http://mesh. Keywords not included in this thesaurus should be clearly indicated; 3) bibliographical references (30 maximum for original articles and 10 maximum for technical notes), which should not claim to be exhaustive but rather selective.Presentation of the articles.

Presentation of the articles

Language: Papers will normally be written in French. However, non-French speaking authors may submit their work in English. However, as the journal publishes a maximum of one or two articles in English per issue, priority will be given to reviews and original articles.

The title page must include :

the title in French and English, which should be concise but informative;
the first name and surname of each author;
the name and address of the author to whom the correspondence should be addressed with the email address ;
the full affiliation of each author with address;
the conflicts of interest (or lack thereof) for each author.

The manuscript must include :

An abstract in English and French. It should provide a general understanding of the aspects addressed in the article. It should give an overview of the different parts of the article, without going into detail about the results and data given in the body of the article. No references should be called in the abstract.
Up to 5 key words in English and French. Avoid general terms, plurals and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of"). Avoid abbreviations: only abbreviations well established in the field are allowed, and should be expanded. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Main points: The main points are presented in the form of a short bulleted list of the main elements of the article. The list of key points should be inserted in the manuscript. It contains 3 to 5 points to remember (maximum 100 characters including spaces for each).
Acknowledgements, if any, of persons, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate paragraph before the references and entitled "Acknowledgements".
Funding: Details of all sources of funding for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear after the Acknowledgements section. Please clearly identify the entity or entities that provided the underlying financial support for the conduct of the research and/or the preparation of the paper. Please clearly identify the role of the funder(s), if any, in (a) the design of the trial, (b) the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, (c) the writing of the report, and (d) the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) did not contribute, then this should be mentioned.
References are numbered in order of appearance in the text (Arabic numbers). They appear in square brackets. References should be chosen from journals that are accessible to the widest possible audience (avoid esoteric journals) and should be primarily based on serious general journals rather than on original articles. References cited only in tables or figures are numbered in a sequence established by the first identification of the table in the text. They refer only to published work (including abstracts) or work in press. Journal titles are abbreviated according to the US National Library of Medicine (annually in the January issue of Index Medicus).

If there are six or fewer authors, cite them all. If there are more than six, list the first three, followed by "et al".

o For journal articles: Names of authors followed by initials of their first names. Title of the article. Name of the journal in italics and abbreviated according to the style of Index Medicus (no punctuation after abbreviations) year; volume: first and last page of the article.

Ex: Van der Geer J, Hanraads JAJ, Lupton RA. The art of writing a scientific article. J Sci Commun 2010 ;163 :51-9.

o For book chapters: Names and initials of authors. Title of the chapter. In: Names and initials of authors/publishers. Title of book in italics. City: name of the publisher, year of publication: first and last page of the article.

Ex: Mettam GR, Adams LB. How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In: Jones BS, Smith RZ (eds). Introduction to the electronic age, New York: E-Publishing Inc, 2009, p. 281-304.

o For books: Names and initials of authors/publishers. Title of book in italics. City: name of publisher, year of publication. Ex: Strunk Jr W, White EB. The elements of style. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2000.

o Internet references: you must provide, as a minimum, the full URL and the date on which you last accessed the reference. Any other information, if known (DOI, authors' names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.) should also be provided.

Tables are numbered (Arabic numerals) in the order of their first citation in the text. Explanations or miscellaneous notes appear below the tables. Tables should be provided in editable format as separate Word/text documents. PDF is not an acceptable format for tables. Footnotes or captions are preferable to long explanatory texts. Notes should be identified by superscript letters and placed immediately below the table. Abbreviations and acronyms used on the table are defined in the legend, and the table text should be translated if it is in English
Figures are numbered (Arabic numerals) in the order of their first citation in the text. Figures must be submitted in JPEG or TIFF format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Drawings or diagrams must be submitted as Powerpoint® or Word® files. Letters, numbers or symbols must be clear and of sufficient size to make each element perfectly legible. Titles or detailed explanations are not included in the illustration. Captions are typed double-spaced on a separate page. They should be concise but understandable without having to read the text. Abbreviations and acronyms used in the figure are defined in the legend, and the text of the figure should be translated if it is in English. Do not provide files optimised for on-screen use (e.g. GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG), as these formats usually have too few pixels and a limited colour set.

Medicines and devices: Medicines are identified by the generic name (international non-proprietary name) without the initial capital letter. The speciality name may be mentioned in brackets with an initial capital letter, followed by the symbol ® and the name of the pharmaceutical company if the medicine is not well known. The trade name of a device is followed by the name of the manufacturer or distributor in brackets.
Abbreviations and symbols: The full term precedes the abbreviation when it first appears in the text (unless it is an international unit of measurement). Their use must be consistent and invariable throughout the article. Abbreviations are not allowed in titles, intertitles or abstracts. A complete list of abbreviations used is given on a separate sheet at the end of the manuscript. It is advisable to use the minimum number of abbreviations and never when a term is used less than 3 times.
Third party material: In the event that some of the illustrations are produced by third parties, whether or not they have already been published, the author undertakes to obtain from them all the necessary authorisations for the integration of these illustrations into the article and for their use in this form. He/she will communicate these authorisations for reproduction with his/her manuscript. These permissions are generally issued via the website https://www.copyright.com (see the "Get permission" button available for each article). They may be subject to a fee, which is always payable by the author. If you wish to include figures, images or extracts from previously published articles, it is your responsibility to obtain permission to do so. All material must be properly referenced and you must have the written consent of the copyright holder (this may be the publisher rather than the author). This includes your own previously published material, if you are not the copyright holder.

Videos

Illustrating articles with videos is possible and encouraged. They will be attached to the online article on the journal's website. They must be sent at the same time as the manuscript and referred to in the text. The video file is provided in mp4 format, as well as a JPEG image capture of this video. As a video weighs on average 10 to 12 MB per minute, short formats (2-3 minutes) should be favoured. As this type of file is too large to be sent by email, the author can send it via WeTransfer, Dropbox or any other platform. These videos will not be edited by the publisher. The author will ensure in advance that the anonymity of the patient and the operators visible in the film who are not the authors of the article is respected. For any other information, please contact us by email at: marine.riviere@yahoo.fr

Editorial follow-up

The proofs will be sent to the corresponding author by e-mail as a PDF file, together with a transfer of rights agreement and a declaration of interest to be filled in individually by each author.

Corrections and other documents must be returned by the corresponding author within five working days of receipt of the proof, by e-mail (marine.riviere@jle.com; cassandre.foulard@jle.com).

If this deadline is not met, the editorial office may take over responsibility for proofreading.

The corrected proof is available online, in prepublication, less than a week after the corrections have been sent, on the publisher's website, under the heading Forthcoming articles: https://www.jle.com/en/revues/ers/aop.phtml

Preprints

We advise authors who wish to make preprints of non-peer-reviewed work available to the public to choose preprint archives that have the following characteristics:

Clearly identify the preprints as work that has not been peer-reviewed;
Document your interests and funding;
Ensure that there is a clear process for users of preprint archives to notify the archive administrators of concerns related to published preprints - a public comment function is desirable for this purpose.
The archive must maintain metadata for preprints that are withdrawn from distribution and post withdrawal notices indicating the date of withdrawal.
The archive must have a mechanism in place allowing authors to indicate when the preprint has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Authors should inform the journal if the submitted work has been published on a preprint archive and provide a link to the preprint, whether publication occurs prior to submission or during the peer review process. It is also helpful to indicate in the manuscript text, perhaps in the introduction, that the work has been published on a preprint archive, and how reviewers can access this preprint.

Furthermore, it is the responsibility of the authors (and not the journal editors) to ensure that the preprints are modified to direct readers to subsequent versions of the work, including the published article. Authors should not publish in the preprint archive the published article or intermediate versions produced during the peer review process that incorporate revisions based on journal comments.

Offprints and copies

After the publication of the printed issue, an electronic PDF reprint is sent to the corresponding author by e-mail.

It is possible to order offprints for a fee at the time of proofreading. You will then be given a price list according to the number of pages.

A free copy of the issue is sent to the corresponding author upon request during the proofreading process.

Archiving policy and open access

Authors can disseminate their research in different models.

For more information on content access policies, see the link to Sherpa Romeo: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/41824

In the case of open access articles, permission for third party (re)use is defined according to the Creative Commons user licences defined below.

Whichever publication method you choose, the journal will apply the same peer review criteria and acceptance standards.

Creative Commons Attribution - No Commercial Use - No Derivative Works (CC BY-NC-ND) Non-commercial use licence: allows users to distribute and copy the article, and to include it in a collective work (e.g. an anthology), provided that they credit the author(s) and do not alter or modify the article

Publication fee: the open access publication fee is EUR 400 excluding VAT.